{"id":13200,"date":"2012-08-06T02:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/olympics-athletics-pistorius-fails-to-make-400m-final\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T02:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:07:41","slug":"olympics-athletics-pistorius-fails-to-make-400m-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-athletics-pistorius-fails-to-make-400m-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Athletics-Pistorius fails to make 400m final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mitch Phillips<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Oscar Pistorius failed in his bid<br \/>\nto reach the Olympic 400 metres final on Sunday when the South<br \/>\nAfrican double-amputee finished last in his semi-final.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius, who races wearing carbon fibre prosthetic blades<br \/>\nafter being born without a fibula in both legs, is the first<br \/>\ndouble-amputee to run in the Games and was given a rapturous<br \/>\nwelcome when he went out on to the track.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pace was too hot for him, though and, just as at last<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s world championships, he finished last in his race in<br \/>\n46.54 seconds, way down on the 45.44 season&#8217;s best he posted in<br \/>\nthe first round.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Immediately after finishing, heat winner and world champion<br \/>\nKirani James, the 19-year-old Grenadian, swapped his pinned-on<br \/>\nname label with Pistorius, who will also run in the 4x400m<br \/>\nrelay, as the two men embraced.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Luguelin Santos, the 18-year-old junior world champion from<br \/>\nthe Dominican Republic, made the final while the fastest<br \/>\nqualifier was Trinidad  Tobago&#8217;s Lalonde Gordon.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mitch Phillips LONDON Aug 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Oscar Pistorius failed in his bid to reach the Olympic 400 metres final on Sunday when the South African double-amputee finished last in his semi-final. Pistorius, who races wearing carbon fibre prosthetic blades after being born without a fibula in both legs, is the first double-amputee to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}